Can I Pay the Mortgage with Technological Prowess?
You can use every advanced technology in the world, every day, in every way. But the only metric of success is whether or not it’s growing your business and reducing…
A Minute with Alan® — Big Business, Small Wonders
July 2nd, 2024 Have you ever gone up to an airline ticket counter or even the gate agent, and you find out they can’t type?
A Minute with Alan® — Leadership Chart
July 4th, 2024 I’ve been working hard on a leadership chart, and I want to show you my chart.
Procrastination Is Fear
Procrastination is the result of the fear of producing something that will be negatively critiqued or unacceptable being far greater than the fear of being seen as late and delayed.
The Reciprocity of Referrals
If you don’t have people you can comfortably and unashamedly call for referrals, you haven’t created high value, reciprocal relationships. I send people to my dentist, who’s terrific. Why wouldn’t…
Forced Choices
I guess the question now is whether the Democrats will allow an open convention and the delegates elected by the people to choose a presidential candidate, or a few powerful…
Car Bullies
You know those people who won’t stop to let you turn against traffic, or refuse to let you merge, or race off at the green light hoping to leave you…
Weakness in Numbers
When you’re wrong about something, citing a quote from people who are well known (and often dead) who are also wrong doesn’t make you right. It just makes all of…
Who, me? Yeah, you.
When 10% of a car model’s brakes fail, do you blame the million people in that 10% for being inept at using brakes, or do you recall the cars because…
Shouting Into the Wind
There were once African tribes hostile to each other who would show up in a field and shout insults at each other. When they were exhausted, everyone went home thinking…